Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Karnataka
- Division
- Belgaum division
- Headquarters
- Dharwad
- Talukas
- Dharwad , Hubli Nagara , Hubli , Navalgund , Kundgol , Kalghatgi , Alnavar , Annigeri
- Deputy commissioner district magistrate
- Divya Prabhu G R J, ( IAS )
- Police commissioner hubballi dharwad cit
- N. Shashikumar, IPS
- Superintendent of police dharwad distric
- Gunjan Arya, IPS
- Total
- 4,265 km (1,647 sq mi)
- Density
- 433.1/km (1,122/sq mi)
- Official
- Kannada
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Telephone code
- + 91 (0)836
- Vehicle registration
- KA-25, KA-63
- Website
- dharwad .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Part of
- Belgaum division
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Bombay Presidency
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Dharwad
- Official language
- Kannada
- Population
- 1847023
- Area
- 4265
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Haveri district
- Official website
- dharwad.nic.in
- Households
- 382700
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Dharwad district
- Commons category
- Dharwad district
- topic's main category
- Category:Dharwad district
- male population
- 937206
- female population
- 909817
- urban population
- 1049539
- rural population
- 797484
- literate population
- 1301664
- illiterate population
- 545359
- short name
- DRW
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Dharwad district or Dharawada is an administrative district of the state of Karnataka in southern India. The administrative headquarters of the district is the city of Dharwad, also known as Dharwar. Dharwad is located 425 km northwest of Bangalore and 421 km southeast of Pune, on the main highway between Chennai and Pune, the National Highway 4 (NH4).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dharwad district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.